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Bio

My art career started in the early 70’s making glass and mirror wall designs after work at my regular job as a ‘glazier’. I sold my art at the Marina Del Rey Art Show on Sundays and after a few months I quit my regular job and worked as an artist full time for the next six years.

After getting married, I decided to get into a completely different type profession and quit making art except for furniture for my own house and other ‘decorating’ like painting faux finishes on walls.

When I turned 50, I woke up one morning and declared “I am ready to make art.” For the last several years I have been making assemblages, paintings, woodworks, stained glassworks, and furniture.

My artwork is shown intermittently at galleries in Southern California.

Artist’s Statement

I have always been interested in seeing and using materials differently than their original intended use. When I peruse a 99 cent store or swap meet I look at objects not for what they are but how I could possibly use them or part of them in an artwork.

Most of my artwork is 3 dimensional and large in scale- an assemblage of various materials. Many of these materials are recovered from construction sites, as I have been a builder for 20+ years and am able to recycle items being demolished at the beginning of a project or left over at the end.

The first time I saw Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘Combines’ I knew I was looking at the direction of art I would be heading. I was profoundly affected not only in the way materials were combined but also the color palette- the muted and blended hues; my favorite artist from the last half of the twentieth century.

I use many types of materials including wood, glass, metal, wire, piping, flooring, and other various found objects to create art and furniture.

I recently completed an outdoor sculpture of steel, ceramic and glass.

Lastly, I am painting canvasses that are primarily landscapes that also are creating space visually for the viewer. I get my primary inspiration from the artist Anselm Kiefer.